September 21, 2012

When she told then-Principal Denise Morgan that she made a student leave the class for sexual comments, the official’s response was: “And how does that threaten you?”..

And a 2008 letter from the Department of Education chastised the social studies educator for “inappropriate attire,” described as a “low-cut, V-neck lace top.”...

Interesting that this all happened at the High School for Legal Studies. Turns out it's "a D-rated school which had less than 60% of its students graduate in 2009." And "in 2010 when teachers were caught taking a lavish, taxpayer-funded junket and students were busted for using cell phones to film brawls and sex acts."

22 comments:

If my kid did that stuff, he'd be washing her car and cutting her grass for a year. I bet the parents instead attacked her in support of their kids behavior. The parents should be paying some of that settlement.

bag of mostly water, I agree completely. The majority of the educational problems in America are caused by undersocialized children from single parent homes where the mom does not or cannot supervise and/or socialize her children into being citizens. Instead, these children are feral and act it.

You on the other hand, discipline your children. I bet they grow up to be citizens!

Well, The School for Legal Studies doesn't claim to prepare their students for legal careers.

So, what do they do?

"The School for Legal Studies empowers students with understanding, respect, and civic responsibility. Through fostering critical thinking skills, students are encouraged to become advocates for families, communities, and global justice. We are committed to academic excellence, enabling our students to be life-long learners and leaders for the 21st Century."

Got that? They're empowering, fostering advocacy, and teaching how to learn how to learn.

You on the other hand, discipline your children. I bet they grow up to be citizens!

....who will work their asses off, pay exorbitant taxes to support the feral, worthless children who have grown up into criminals and professional welfare scammers. And, while his children are being extorted to feed these useless drains on society, they being told that they are racist pigs for resenting being a serf and cash cow.

Through fostering critical thinking skills, students are encouraged to become advocates for families, communities, and global justice. We are committed to academic excellence, enabling our students to be life-long learners and leaders for the 21st Century

Ugh. Edu-speak babble. This is what Ed Psych PhDs come up with. I see this kind of verbiage all the time at the local Tech College.

Been a while since this made to news but I've just seen this pop up in search results recently. I thank everyone for the coverage and comments though I think being too snarky about the students misses the point. The issue in this case was a school's responsibility for preventing and remediating sexual harassment that is perpetrated by students against faculty. This was an unsettled area of law and is still not entirely clear. In any event, I was pleased that the matter was favorably resolved in the teacher's favor.